Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (2024)

These historical fiction books are new to our shelves in the last 30 days (most recent on top).

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Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (1)

Jackie : a novel / Dawn Clifton Tripp.

"Jackie is the story of a woman—deeply private with a nuanced, formidable intellect—who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity tha…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (2)

The weather woman / Sally Gardner.

"Neva is born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes are won and lost on the turn of a card. But she is also born with an extraordinary gift: she can predict the weather. In Regency England, where the proper goal for a gentlewoman is marria…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (3)

The Queen's faithful companion : a novel of Queen Elizabeth II and her beloved corgi, Susan / Eliza Knight.

"A reigning queen...Elizabeth wasn't born to be queen. But when her uncle abdicates and her father steps in as king, everything in her life changes. There is one thing that never wavers, however: her endearing love of her Corgis--especially the new puppy …

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (4)

"When American WWII bombardier Micah Lund dies on a mission over Japan, his spirit remains trapped as a yurei ghost. Dazed, he follows Kiyomi Oshiro, a war widow struggling to care for her young daughter, Ai, as food is scarce, work at the factory is brut…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (5)

The act of disappearing / Nathan Gower.

"Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn’t cutting it and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She’s broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother’s medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boy…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (6)

Faraway the southern sky / a novel by Joseph Andras ; translated by Simon Leser.

"Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, the radicals, poor artists, prostitutes, the luckless, and…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (7)

Tiananmen Square / Lai Wen.

"As a child in Beijing in the 1970s, Lai lives with her family in a lively, working-class neighborhood near the heart of the city. Thoughtful yet unassuming, she spends her days with her friends beyond the attention of her parents: Her father is a reclusi…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (8)

The last twelve miles : a novel / Erika Robuck.

"1926, Washington, D. C. In the Prohibition Rum Wars, the Coast Guard is losing. Eleven million gallons of illegal liquor a year have created a booming smuggling economy, with criminals wreaking havoc on American cities, and everyday citizens thumbing the…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (9)

The safekeep : a novel / Yael van der Wouden.

"It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (10)

The glassmaker : a novel / Tracy Chevalier.

"It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the h…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (11)

The Sisters of Corinth / Angela Hunt

"When the new provincial governor arrives in Corinth, the esteemed Chief Magistrate Narkis Ligus, father to Mariana and Prima, is delighted. He sees a golden opportunity to propel himself to greater power and fortune by uniting his and the governor's hous…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (12)

The Wartime Book Club / Kate Thompson.

"The Isle of Jersey was once a warm and neighborly community, but in 1943, German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule. Nazis have ordered Grace La Mottée, the island's only librarian, to destroy books that threaten the new regime. I…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (13)

The ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye : a novel / Briony Cameron.

"In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ambitions are bound by the confines of her life with her self-seeking French father. When her way of life and the…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (14)

The secret keeper of Main Street : a novel / Trisha R. Thomas.

"1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a good living fitting designer gowns and creating custom wedding dresses for the town’s elite. But beyond her nee…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (15)

The swan's nest : a novel / by Laura McNeal.

"On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen. 'I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,' Robert Brown…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (16)

The last hope / A Maggie Hope mystery Susan Elia MacNeal.

"All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the ...Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer--and possible double agent--Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Maggie Hope has …

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (17)

The goddess of Warsaw : a novel / Lisa Barr.

In 2005, Siena Hayes is Hollywood's latest It Girl, but she has her sights set higher than the screen, she wants to be behind the camera. So when Siena meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous actor from decades past, Siena sees her big b…

Adult Historical Fiction - Capital Area District Library (18)

Familiaris / David Wroblewski.

This novel is the "origin story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name. It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble … again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their tw…

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